NoClassDefFoundError Landroid/arch/lifecycle/LifecycleDispatcher

Question

I want to try out the new lifecycle stuff from google (https://developer.android.com/arch) but getting a crash on app open. All I have done is add the dependencies. Is anyon

Answer 1

I was using some gradle configurations

android.enableR8.desugaring=false
android.enableJetifier=true
android.useAndroidX=true

To work again I removed android.enableR8.desugaring=false of gradle.properties file